Belhocine, who denied murder, had claimed he was sexually abused as a child and believed this memory may have triggered his anger on the night of Mr Cooper’s death.

The failed asylum seeker came to the UK on a visitor’s visa in 2007.

The court heard he was part of a network of Algerian pickpockets operating in the Finsbury Park area, which he denied.

Belhocine was convicted of murder and robbery and is due to be sentenced on Friday (July 10).

The irony of all this is that the kid may very well have been abused by his male relatives and neighbors when he was a boy. As I’ve mentioned before, this is common behavior, part of the traditional culture of the Arab world.

But Algeria doesn’t recognize it as an excuse for criminal behavior, and fortunately (in this case at least) a British jury felt the same way.

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He will be out in less the ten years. It will be be most unusual if he spends more then 10 years in jail.

The law is a complete ass in the UK. If this state continues, then I'm certain that vigiliante action will come back. The political elite will ofcourse rant against vigilantism, but it their fault that the citizens of one of the most law abiding countries in the world have had to resort to it, as the state completely reneged on its side of the compact.